Island societies

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Island societies

• Warfare, Politics and New Economies,

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Importance of the beachcomber

• Kamehameha, Poumare, Finau of Vavau and Naulivou
  of Bau all became national leaders because of
  European help.
• Kamehameha- with the help of John Young and Isaac
  Davis- was able to control all the islands. With
  the final assault on Kauai he became king of
  Hawaii

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Importance of the beachcomber

• Tahiti

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Importance of the beachcomber

• Poumare defeated the chiefs of Paea and Ahurai
  through the help of the Bounty mutineers.
• The crew of the Norfolk and other Europeans help
  to maintain his position when the mutineers left.

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Islanders and Traders
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Islanders and Traders
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Contact Affected Islanders
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Europeans
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Apolosi R Nawai and the Viti Kabani 1913 -1917

• Personal Background
• Born in 1885 and belongs to the chiefly mataqali
  of Narewa Village in Nadi. He was the third son
  of a Methodist teacher.
• He was gifted with supernatural powers and
  excelled in academic and religious studies.

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Apolosi R Nawai and the Viti Kabani 1913 -1917

• He was a good/smart businessman.
• Figured that European middlemen made about 1,000
  pounds on an investment of 2000 pounds.
• Cut out the middlemen
• Fijian Pool their capital together
• Control their own enterprise reinvest the
• profit.

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Apolosi R Nawai and the Viti Kabani 1913 -1917

• Choice of crop Banana
• Include many Fijian farmers-Grown a large number
  of Fijians in different parts of Viti Levu.
• Result - It began to prosper in the West of Viti
  Levu in mid 1890s under program of the Fiji
  Banana and Produce Company

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Apolosi R Nawai and the Viti Kabani 1913 -1917

• There was a boom in performance in 1913 -1914.
• Middlemen were to gain the support of chiefs or
  resident magistrate.
• Competition between middlemen and the Fijian
  farmers were playing one middlemen against the
  other.

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Apolosi R Nawai and the Viti Kabani 1913 -1917

• Apolosi R Nawai and the Viti Kabani was
  successeful
• Apolosi and his friends moved from village to
  village to get chiefs and people to buy shares.
• People gladly receive the people from the company
• Viti Kabani recruited skilled people from abroad.

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Godeffroy Sohn

• Johann Caesar Godeffroy, a wealthy merchant and
  ship-owner in Germany had a South Seas trading
  headquarters in Apia.
• Company agents offer farmers low freight rates
  and efficient services to Sydney, Hong Kong and
  Germany.

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Godeffroy Sohn

• It was successful in its dealings
• Samoa- It bought up Samoan copra and also got
  itself land -25,000 acres.
• Dominated trade in the central Pacific iby the
  1874.
• German agents given consular responsibilities.
• Influence on government colonial policies
  increased.

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Godeffroy Sohn

• In 1870s it started trading coconuts and pearl
  shell in New Britain off the coast of New Guinea.
• In 10 years German trades had coconut plantations
  north east of New Guinea.
• 1885 Bismarcks government took possession of the
  Marshall Islands.

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Trade interaction

• At first Islanders exchange local products for
  ritual and friendship.
• 150 years later exchange of commodities became
  regular Islanders depend on what the Europeans
  had to offer.
• These trading pattern made it possible to exploit
  the renewable resources.
• Pacific Islands were absorbed in to the global
  economy.

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Cont.

• Some of the Island goods were important in the
  world market as luxury item, sample sandalwood.
  Cotton and whale oil was directed to the
  industries.
• Other discoveries robed the Islanders of their
  exports, now the world depend on petroleum
  instead of whale oil, or guano product for super
  phosphate etc.